We examined the extent to which evaluative attitudes toward sexual aggression are distinct from other cognitions regarding sexually aggressive behavior. Evaluative attitudes toward sexual aggression refer to the extent to which sexual aggression is viewed negatively or positively. In a secondary analysis of online survey data from 495 community men, exploratory factor analysis revealed that items from a measure of evaluative attitudes formed a distinct factor from items designed to measure cognitive distortions regarding rape. These findings suggest that evaluative attitudes may be distinct from cognitive distortions. Furthermore, hierarchical regression analyses indicated that evaluative attitudes explained unique variance in self-reported past sexual aggression, proclivity for sexually aggressive behavior, and likelihood to rape. If future research finds support for a causal relationship between evaluative attitudes and sexual aggression, well-established evaluative-attitude-change procedures from the social psychological literature could be adapted to address evaluative attitudes toward sexual aggression in interventions aimed at reducing sexually aggressive behavior.

我们研究了对性侵犯的评价态度与其他关于性侵犯行为的认知不同的程度。对性侵犯的评价态度指对性侵犯的负面或正面看法的程度。在对来自 495 名社区男性的在线调查数据进行的二次分析中，探索性因素分析显示，评估态度测量的项目与旨在测量强奸认知扭曲的项目形成了不同的因素。这些发现表明，评价态度可能不同于认知扭曲。此外，层次回归分析表明，评价态度解释了自我报告的过去性侵犯、性侵犯行为倾向和强奸可能性的独特差异。如果未来的研究发现对评价态度和性侵犯之间存在因果关系的支持，